Whether or not all stakeholders fully grasp it yet, healthcare finds itself on a slingshot trajectory into a connected digital future of better care, more affordable medication and easier payments. It was a long time coming, as a monolithic healthcare system for decades resisted change...
New year, new world. That could sum up 2022, but it’s a bit more involved. If we weren’t thinking about health often enough before, that behavior’s been replaced by a hypervigilance that has wide-ranging impacts. We see it from retail settings to smartphone doctor appointments...
CVS Health’s transition from a pharmacy-only focus to more of an overall health care effort continued with the launch of CVS Health Virtual Primary Care, a virtual care solution that’s available through a digital platform, according to a press release Thursday (May 26). CVS Health...
As PYMNTS makes the rounds each month, checking the status of apps in several different categories, one of the stops includes telemedicine apps. Here, in the Provider Ranking of Telemedicine Apps, PYMNTS takes the temperature of each app by looking at such factors as channel...
Esaal, an online health and wellness consultation platform for patients in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has wrapped a $1.7 million seed funding round. As the Egyptian company said in a news release Wednesday (May 25), Esaal will use the funding to “scale...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its next AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity, the company said on its website Tuesday (May 24). “The accelerator is one more way we are harnessing the power of the cloud to make access to healthcare equitable,”...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) noted earlier this year that the nursing field is still facing persistent shortages because of lack of educators, high turnover and inequitable workforce distribution. That problem has long existed because of the aging population (and workforce), burnout among nurses...
Smart healthcare company Navia Life Care has debuted a new process for instant loans called Aarogya Pay, designed to offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) options to patients, the Free Press Journal reported Friday (May 20). The company is looking to help patients access medical...
Small deal – at least for a commerce/eCommerce giant with the deepest of deep pockets. At least in terms of the price tag. But it could be a big step, and specifically Amazon’s and Walmart’s bids, to forge the connected economy. Bloomberg has reported that...
